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Under Enemy Colours
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Sean Thomas Russell |
1793: the thunder of cannon fire echoes across theEnglish Channel, chilling the stoutest hearts . . .The opening skirmishes of the French Revolutionary War send ageing frigate HMS Themis into waters … |
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Pryde And The Infernal Device
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Malcolm Archibald |
"1805. England is in the midst of her war with France. Matthew Pryde, engineer at a coal mine in Kent, is regarded as the perfect 'spy' to send across the English Channel to investigate rumours that … |
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Rebellion
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James McGee |
October, 1812. Britain and France are still at war when Bow Street Runner and former private investigator Matthew Hawkwood, now of the British Secret Service, joins a colleague in Paris on a special … |
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The Sage of Waterloo
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Leona Francombe |
"On June 17, 1815, the Duke of Wellington amassed his troops at Hougoumont, an ancient farmstead not far from Waterloo. The next day, the French attacked--the first shots of the Battle of Waterloo--s… |
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Through Russian Snows
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G. A. Henty |
Henty gives us two brothers as heroes, Frank and Julian Wyatt from Weymouth. Julian, through some fault of his own, is carried to France by smugglers and ends up in a French prison. Given the opportu… |
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Hornblower & the Crisis
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C. S. Forester |
The final Horatio Hornblower story tells of Napoleon's plans to invade England ... Set in 1805, Hornblower and the Crisis finds Horatio Hornblower in possession of confidential dispatches from Bonapa… |
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Sharpe's gold
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Bernard Cornwell,Frederick Davidson |
Bold, professional, ruthless - hero and man of actionThe stench was thick by the hermitage and buzzing with flies, and Sharpe paused by the steps.There was almost a reluctance to go inside, not just … |
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Floating gold
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Margaret Muir |
Can Captain Quintrell retrieve the cargo he has been sent to find and return with it safely to England? |
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The Free Fishers
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John Buchan |
Set in a bleak Yorkshire hamlet, this is a tale of treason and romance. Anthony Lammas, Professor of Logic at St Andrews University, becomes entangled in a web of intrigue that threatens the country.… |
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Ramage's signal
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Dudley Pope |
The Calypso and her captain, Lord Nicholas Ramage, venture further into the French-dominated waters of the Mediterranean on an Admiralty mission to sink, burn, and destroy. Aiming to confuse and dist… |
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